Improvement in clasps for wearing apparel



NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK WOOD, OF SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLASPS FOR WEARING APPAREL- Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 46,288, dated February 7, 1865.

To all whom t may concern.:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK Woor, of Somerville, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachussetts, have made a new and useful invention to be used as a substitute for buttons and button-holes in fastening together the parts of clothing or various articles, the saine being particularly useful for the fronts of pantaloons; and I do hereby declare the said invention to be described in the following specification and represented in the accoinpan ying' drawings, of which- Figure 1 isa front view ot'it; Fig. 2 a front View; Figs. 3 and 4 opposite side views, and Fig. 5 a transverse section, ofthe soeketed portion of it. Fig. 6 is a front view, and Fig. 'l' a longitudinal section, of the catch-tongue or other portion ot' the invention. Fig. 8 is a transverse section ot' the head of the catchtongue. Fig. 9 is a longitudinal section of the two parts of, or portions ot, the invention as arranged together.

TheV clothes-fastener in question is constructed ot' two parts, A B, each of which, when used, 1s to be secured to an article of clothing by means of a rivet going through a hole, c, made in such part. The portion B is a cup or concavo-convex disk formed with a slot, i, leading out of it on one side, (see Fig. 3,) and also with a notch, g, formed on its opposite side and from its periphery, in manner as shown in Figs. l, 2, and 4.. The portion A consists not only of two circular disks, a b, united by a bar or shank, c', but of a projestion, a, extending from the disk a in manner as shown in Fig. 6. The part bis that through which the rivet which is to connect the portion A to the cloth is to extend. The

two portions A B, when applied to an article of clothing, are to be arranged thereon, and with respect to each other, in manner as shown in Fig. 1, in which case it will be seen that the projection ofthe part A extends into the slot i of the part B and rests against one end of such slot; also, that the shank c is passed into the notch e and rests against the inner end or terminus ot' such notch, the disk a being within the cup B.

By simply turning the part B around on the head a and moving the part A out ot' the notch g, the disengagement ot' the two paris A B may be readily eected. While in engagement, the parts A B will be maintained in connection with great certainty by means of the projection a', the shank c, and the head a cooperating withthe recess and the slot and notch of the part B.

Instead of constructing each portion A or B with a single hole, o, for arivet to go through, saveral holes may beniade in it for the recepfion of a thread, which may be used in sewing the part to a garment.. This improved fastener will-answer for shoes `and various other articles, as well as for clothes.

NVith my invent-ion the usual button-hole ily of a pair ot' pantaloons may be dispensed with.

What I claim is- The improved fastener, as composed of the two parts A B, made substantially as described.

FRE DE RICK WOOD.

Witnesses B. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

